Injecting drug users
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- Protecting sex workers from violence and HIV risk in Cambodia
- ( C. Jenkins / USA Agency for International Development , 2006)
- As one of the few countries that have managed to check the spread of HIV, Cambodia is widely praised as a success story. This success is often attributed to the country's 100% condom programme. Howeve...
- The global production and consumption of illicit drugs is shrinking
- ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , 2009)
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This annual report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) analyses market trends, and compiles detailed statistics on illicit drug markets for cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines, an...
- Health and human rights legal framework for law on drug use and HIV/AIDS
- ( Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network , 2009)
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Many countries with injection-driven HIV and AIDS epidemics continue to emphasise criminal enforcement of drug laws over public health approaches, thereby missing or even hindering effective respon...
- Drug control and human rights
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2009)
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UN drug control agencies have paid little attention to whether international drug control efforts are consistent with human rights protections, or to the effect of drug control policies on fundamen...
Reviewing the General Assembly Special Session on Drugs
- ( International Drug Policy Consortium , 2009)
- A high level review has recently taken place of the progress against objectives set at the General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 1998, namely, to eradicate or significantly reduce the productio...
- Why are national responses to drug harm reduction inadequate?
- ( International Harm Reduction Association , 2009)
- It is estimated that 15.9 million people inject drugs in 158 countries and territories around the world. Despite the proven efficacy of harm reduction interventions and endorsement by the UN bodies, u...
- War on drugs or war on drug users?
- ( Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network , 2009)
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A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a 'drug-free world', there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. This digital book from the Open So...
The law and HIV/AIDS in prisons
- ( R. Pearshouse / Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network , 2006)
- UNAIDS suggests that approximately 30 percent of new HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are due to contaminated injection equipment. This model-law resource by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Netwo...
- Preventing and treating HIV in prisons
- ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , 2008)
- In many countries, the groups most vulnerable to HIV are also groups at increased risk of criminalisation and incarceration, as many of the same social and economic conditions that increase vulnerabil...
Imprisonment, HIV prevalence and injecting drug users
- ( K. Dolan;B. Kite;E. Black / The Lancet , 2007)
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Prisons have the classic characteristics that can increase the risk of HIV transmission. High prevalence of HIV infection and the over-representation of injecting drug users (IDUs) in prisons combi...
